'Obsolete' technology that you remember using.

[Sunrider]

Everything the OP mentioned, the Commodore 64, monochrome computer displays, 5 and a half inch floppy diskettes, good old fashioned radial telephones, hard drives that measured total capacity in megabytes, you name it. It has come to my attention that I'm kind of old for this crowd, heh.

This. Everything here and some more.

 

[spacepope22]

I remember my first computer having windows 3.0 on it. That was back in 1991. I feel so old.

 

[Jaxs]

My Ipod classic, now.

 

[Lma0nade]

Dial up.

MOM! WHY THE FUCK DID YOU ANSWER THE PHONE?!?!?!

 

[The Human Torch]

Walkman. As in, the old version that used cassettes (these days they use the same name for MP3 players), Windows 3.1, those home phones with the dial that you needed to turn in a circular motion, record-players, a TV with 8 channels and no remote and a 'remote' controlled toy car that was attached by a cord.

 

[EatPieYes]

God, I remember Chip's challenge. I played that game for hours and never got bored with it.

That game is a fantastic little gem. Makes me a bit depressed that I can't get it to work on my computer.

 

[Snotnarok]

A computer with a 6 color display and a 5.25 floppy drive. Hey it played Silpheed okay?
Damn kids and your ikaruga, bullet hell my ass Silpheed is the super dogfighter!

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I remember when VHS was still used by everyone, and the same thing with cassette tapes. Hell I remember my parents still using their record player every now and then.

And I'm not even that old.

 

[McShizzle]

Party lines

OMG! Party Lines! I totally forgot about these. We had one when I was a kid and lived on a farm. Pick up the phone, and the goddamn neighbours were on it.

 

[Randomologist]

I still use occasionally cassettes and my windows 3.1 PC. I still have VHS tapes and I can remember dial-up, but I've a feeling that older members of the escapist can stretch further back to Betamax and Vinyls, both of which Im too young for.

Also, on cassettes: no-one can ever get bored pressing the Play button halfway-down, and listening to the tape twice as fast in a squeaky voice.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

The Game Boy Color, and everything mentioned above.

I was at a store that was selling a mess of Game Boy Colors... and I saw the exact color that I used to have... I nostalgia'd so hard.

 

[Lyx]

FYI, Vinyl actually is on the rise again, at least among music enthusiasts. Main reason is that mastering on modern records sounds like dogshit (no dynamics) and for unknown reasons, the mastering often (though, not always) is done less "hot" for vinyls - thus, resulting in a funny situation, where the soundquality of vinyl records actually is better than CDs (not because of technology, but because of how mastering engineers mix for them).

 

[zombays]

VHS and Floppy Disks.

 

[zehydra]

tape recorder. You can't buy these anymore, lol. What else...

VCR of course...

hm...

I guess we had bunny ears on our tv for the longest time. My mother didn't let us have a console, internet, or cable until I was in middle school.

 

[Yureina]

Floppy Discs!

 

[crazypsyko666]

A computer without an ethernet or wireless port.

 

[HeySeansOnline]

My old eye toy, god how I loved that archaic piece of crap, now if you'll excuse me I have to go pick up a Kinect, looks sweet.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

I remember the old Cassette tapes and the fun times i spent winding them back up after the cassette player chewed them up.
VHS tapes, rewinding is just not the same anymore
Dial up modems
--space reserved for CDs-- damn you itunes!!!
Sega Mega Drive, it and sonic started my love of games

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Vinyl records. They still sell 'em, but they're archaic as hell.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

I sill have my NES hooked up to my tube television in my living room.